Schlotzsky's, Ice Cream, NICE DAY!, Twilight Imperium, etc.
I woke up this morning a little early because I was trying to make lunch plans with people. So, now I have paid off my lunch debt to Martin and Carl (as mentioned in this entry a month ago). Since Carl was a little late, we decided to go to Schlotzsky's Deli for lunch instead, also because jcreed and kaustuv were going there. ToI food gets sort of icky after 1pm.
It was a REALLY fucking nice day out. We walked into Oakland (running into![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
beegle and doeblert on the way there) and got deli food, then went to Dave and Andy's for yummy after-lunch dessert, and then stuck around in the lounge all day. (I was so stuffed and unable to move after lunch anyway...)
Carl had to go copy sheet music for AUO, so we didn't visit Takahashi today. But we will at some point. Really we will. Especially now that we can share good news about Oren as well.
So I spent most of the day from 3pm until 11:30pm in Wean. I did go visit Mark Stehlik for a bit, and I also went next door and finally upgraded my black SCS shirt to the new design (I was really lucky, they thought they were out of XL's but Catharine found a few in her desk. whew.) I don't remember most of the afternoon up until around 5 or 6pm, I guess some of it was playing Rook, and some SimCity, etc, and at some pointwhitemage suggested we play Twilight Imperium. jcreed and Brian R were also playing, and I said I'd be willing to learn, and then Dan joined in, and then Emilie also decided to play. (Brian, Dan, and Dave knew how to play; Jason, Emilie and I didn't). Some of us ordered calzones around then, too. So the game took like... uh... 5.5 hours? We didn't actually finish, at some point we just sort of conceded that Dave was going to win. Dan sort of got blasted pretty badly by Jason, and I had a really really weak first few turns, but actually managed to move up a few ranks by mostly picking on Brian (because he had trade agreements with everyone except me) while he left himself open because he went to avenge Dan. Then Brian slapped my ships out of his system, etc... it was getting pretty brutal. I do think it was an interesting game, though, and I'd be willing to play again, definitely, some other time when I have a whole afternoon or evening to throw around.
Jason was feeling kind of sick during the game, and I guess I was kind of worried about him, because he was definitely running a fever, and I dunno, despite the fact that I hope he doesn't go to Princeton, I want him to knock 'em dead anyway. Plus, I guess it would suck if he got really sick and the rest of us got sick too (since I don't actually have health insurance right now and going to the doctor could be sucky). But, hopefully rest will help.
Oh yeah, I should ping Martin and see what he decided to do for the summer, too. Hmm.
It was funny, I remember walking back to campus today after lunch and being like "this is what life is all about! great weather, walking around with good friends, eating yummy ice cream, and not worrying about a damn thing!" and then realizing that everyone else in the group had something to worry about, and adding, "well, I'll do all of the not worrying for the rest of you!" I don't know, I've been inordinately happy these past couple of months, even though it is slightly tinged with a sadness about leaving people. I guess since we haven't actually really left Pittsburgh yet, I don't entirely believe we really are going to. And I've been even happier since I got laid off from WhizBang, oddly enough. No job stress feels great... well, I'm vaguely stressed about having to find another job eventually, but for now it's just wonderful.
Jason said something today about deserving lots of good things happening to you, and I think that it doesn't matter if you deserve good things or not. In theory, anyone can be happy with what happens to them, really. In some cases it's all attitude that even makes events either happy or sad events anyway... well... yeah. Like how when WB laid off people, everyone else was all sad and annoyed and pissed off and I was laughing and smiling and making silly jokes and all. It's all a matter of perspective. And for years I was such a depressed person, but I think it was mainly CMU stress eating at me. I'm so glad to be done with that all, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I loved my time at CMU. I still do. And it's mostly because of all of the awesome wonderful people. So, good things happen, and it's up to you to take them. Not whether you deserve them, but whether you're smart enough to see them, find them, enjoy them while they last, and not let yourself be held down by other things that keep you from enjoying everything. And so on.
Well, I gotta go to sleep. Eli's looking at me with the "you are up WAY TOO LATE" look he gives me at times like this.
Oh yeah, quote of the evening was Emilie during Twilight Imperium, after like the ninth time people were like "and then I'm going to go ownz those planets over there," and she was like "What is an ownz?" and we're like "well, you know, when you OWN something, you like, you 0\/\/nz0rz it, I mean, you blast the hell out of it with your ships, umm..." hehe. (See this megatokyo strip for why I thought it was so funny.) Slang is so fux0red sometimes.
It was a REALLY fucking nice day out. We walked into Oakland (running into
beegle and doeblert on the way there) and got deli food, then went to Dave and Andy's for yummy after-lunch dessert, and then stuck around in the lounge all day. (I was so stuffed and unable to move after lunch anyway...)Carl had to go copy sheet music for AUO, so we didn't visit Takahashi today. But we will at some point. Really we will. Especially now that we can share good news about Oren as well.
So I spent most of the day from 3pm until 11:30pm in Wean. I did go visit Mark Stehlik for a bit, and I also went next door and finally upgraded my black SCS shirt to the new design (I was really lucky, they thought they were out of XL's but Catharine found a few in her desk. whew.) I don't remember most of the afternoon up until around 5 or 6pm, I guess some of it was playing Rook, and some SimCity, etc, and at some point
whitemage suggested we play Twilight Imperium. jcreed and Brian R were also playing, and I said I'd be willing to learn, and then Dan joined in, and then Emilie also decided to play. (Brian, Dan, and Dave knew how to play; Jason, Emilie and I didn't). Some of us ordered calzones around then, too. So the game took like... uh... 5.5 hours? We didn't actually finish, at some point we just sort of conceded that Dave was going to win. Dan sort of got blasted pretty badly by Jason, and I had a really really weak first few turns, but actually managed to move up a few ranks by mostly picking on Brian (because he had trade agreements with everyone except me) while he left himself open because he went to avenge Dan. Then Brian slapped my ships out of his system, etc... it was getting pretty brutal. I do think it was an interesting game, though, and I'd be willing to play again, definitely, some other time when I have a whole afternoon or evening to throw around.Jason was feeling kind of sick during the game, and I guess I was kind of worried about him, because he was definitely running a fever, and I dunno, despite the fact that I hope he doesn't go to Princeton, I want him to knock 'em dead anyway. Plus, I guess it would suck if he got really sick and the rest of us got sick too (since I don't actually have health insurance right now and going to the doctor could be sucky). But, hopefully rest will help.
Oh yeah, I should ping Martin and see what he decided to do for the summer, too. Hmm.
It was funny, I remember walking back to campus today after lunch and being like "this is what life is all about! great weather, walking around with good friends, eating yummy ice cream, and not worrying about a damn thing!" and then realizing that everyone else in the group had something to worry about, and adding, "well, I'll do all of the not worrying for the rest of you!" I don't know, I've been inordinately happy these past couple of months, even though it is slightly tinged with a sadness about leaving people. I guess since we haven't actually really left Pittsburgh yet, I don't entirely believe we really are going to. And I've been even happier since I got laid off from WhizBang, oddly enough. No job stress feels great... well, I'm vaguely stressed about having to find another job eventually, but for now it's just wonderful.
Jason said something today about deserving lots of good things happening to you, and I think that it doesn't matter if you deserve good things or not. In theory, anyone can be happy with what happens to them, really. In some cases it's all attitude that even makes events either happy or sad events anyway... well... yeah. Like how when WB laid off people, everyone else was all sad and annoyed and pissed off and I was laughing and smiling and making silly jokes and all. It's all a matter of perspective. And for years I was such a depressed person, but I think it was mainly CMU stress eating at me. I'm so glad to be done with that all, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I loved my time at CMU. I still do. And it's mostly because of all of the awesome wonderful people. So, good things happen, and it's up to you to take them. Not whether you deserve them, but whether you're smart enough to see them, find them, enjoy them while they last, and not let yourself be held down by other things that keep you from enjoying everything. And so on.
Well, I gotta go to sleep. Eli's looking at me with the "you are up WAY TOO LATE" look he gives me at times like this.
Oh yeah, quote of the evening was Emilie during Twilight Imperium, after like the ninth time people were like "and then I'm going to go ownz those planets over there," and she was like "What is an ownz?" and we're like "well, you know, when you OWN something, you like, you 0\/\/nz0rz it, I mean, you blast the hell out of it with your ships, umm..." hehe. (See this megatokyo strip for why I thought it was so funny.) Slang is so fux0red sometimes.
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Why do you hope jcreed doesn't go to Princeton? The campus is pretty with interesting architecture. What more do you need from a school?
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i mean, they do have a lot of really good people there doing a lot of good stuff. the only thing that makes me wonder is why people keep saying that they buy all of their good people. (they tried to buy kevin watkins too, which is probably a big part of why he came to CMU) it's like the New York Yankees or something.